But sometimes it's hard to recognize something washed up on the beach. Maybe this object is partly rotten, or it represents marine animals or plants that are rarely seen on land. In other words, its status has caused people to question the previously unknown relationship or behavior of marine life, or provided some unusual clues to ocean dynamics.
Here are some interesting examples of mysterious and strange sea messengers, which remind us that there are still many things to be discovered about life in the depths of the ocean.
Wax block
what's up From July of 14, a new type of tourists appeared on several beaches in northern France-thousands of yellow people and heavy people followed the tide, ignoring their identity. Although the report shows that they have a faint paraffin smell, according to the estimation of Sea Mer Association, which supervised the study, several tons of wax-like objects were found on the coast and coast of 37 miles (60 kilometers) of the French coastline. They may be.
"Hilary Sorensen/"(University of Oregon) is a gelatinous translucent rectangular marine creature with uneven skin. It is called pyroplast and recently settled in the waters along the Pacific coast of the United States. Thousands of people gathered to wash on the beach-no one knows why.
The representative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association of the United States said in a statement that the so-called "sea pickles" are usually found in more tropical waters, and it is uncertain what caused them to explode in 20 17.
Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu/YouTube is a kind of modern "sea monster", which is a sticky carrion washed on the beach and difficult to identify. In May this year, residents of Indonesian Seilam Island saw a stranded boat-sized creature dripping with red liquid, and a part of its body was inflated by a large number of gas-producing bacteria.
However, scientists explained that this creature is a baleen whale, and its head area once had rows of furry baleen whale filters.
A huge ice hockey (Leda Olmstead) is as big as a basketball. It gathered on the northeast coast of Lake Michigan in 20 13, weighing 50 pounds (22 kilograms).
This kind of ice hockey started from a small piece of ice mud and ice crystals formed by the rolling motion of waves near the coast. According to Tom ulrich, deputy director of the park where these ice cubes were found, these ice cubes usually appear in winter, but rarely grow so big.
Where is the liver (ocean dynamics) A series of terrible ocean "crime scenes" were staged on the beaches of South Africa in May and June, when scientists found the broken remains of four great white sharks, and their livers were missing.
A marine biologist told Life Science that black whales have become the prime suspect because they occasionally prey on great white sharks, and the liver and other internal organs are the "dessert" of predators.
Giant Ovary (Taylor dvorak/Catalina Island Conservation Society) On June 1 day, 2005, a deep-sea paddlefish with a length of 13.5 feet (4 meters) was washed up on Catalina Island, California, which provided scientists with a rare opportunity to observe this elusive phenomenon more closely, because paddlefish live in the ocean. There are still many unknowns about their anatomical structure and behavior, and the team of scientists seized the opportunity to study their bones, muscles, feeding structure and reproductive system-including their 7-foot-long ovaries.
Illustrations provided by PLOS-1 show that 80 million-year-old femur fossils were found in marine rocks in the San Juan Islands of Washington. After revision by the Burke Museum, some of them provide first-hand evidence that dinosaurs once roamed the state.
Paleontologists found this femur while searching for fossils of other extinct animals. The rock was so hard that it took a whole day to pry the fossil out. Although it is not clear what kind of dinosaur this bone belongs to, scientists finally determined that it was a carnivorous dinosaur in a study published in the magazine Library of Science of China on 20 15, which was published in the Beach Walkers on the West Coast on 20 14. In the United States, there are millions of blue animals like jellyfish, but each one. These tiny creatures are called "Feng Shui Hands", each about 2.75 inches (7 cm) long. They usually inhabit the open ocean and like to live in warm waters all over the world. But every few years, storms will roll them to the coastal areas and pile them up on the beaches-an oceanographer told Life Science in 20 14 that in 2009 or 20 10, dead and dying sailors piled up several feet deep on the beaches in California.
Greg Rouse On July 13, a Reddit user shared a photo of a strange huge object on a beach in California. According to the photographer, this object is similar to an organ. It is estimated that it is 5 inches (13 cm) long, and it is divided in half by a long ditch on a partially decomposed corpse with black stripes on one side. It is difficult to determine the identity of a puzzling creature accurately. Marine biologists told Life Science that it may be a sea slug (pictured) or rickets. "KDSPE" junk science "kdspe" "kdspe" (photo credit: prime ccin of Nuny BunBoOS de Acapulco) "kdspe" puzzled Mexican officials and onlookers. After 20 16 was washed ashore at Acapulco beach, the remaining meat was gray and messy.
Through some imagination, these remains may be considered as a magical sea monster. But experts explained that the mysterious group like this is the rotting head of the sperm whale, which is composed of shriveled meat on the upper part of the head and connective tissue called "garbage" on the lower part of the head.
1 2 Current Page: Page 1
next page